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Square Enix has revealed a new monster, “Oyakata Kizuchi,” for Dragon Quest Monsters 4: Bianca and Flora in the Withered Land, and announced that plush toys of the creature will be on display at its Tokyo Game Show 2026 booth. On 5ch, comments like “it doesn’t feel like Toriyama” and “this isn’t even designed by Toriyama anymore, is it?” stood out, pointing to differences from original illustrator Akira Toriyama’s style, while the thread also branched into questions about the sheer number of food-themed monsters and debate over the treatment of Debora from Dragon Quest V.
2026-09-17 12:20
New information has been unveiled for the upcoming game Dragon Quest Monsters 4: Bianca and Flora in the Withered Land. The reveal of a new monster, “Oyakata Kizuchi,” has become a hot topic online.
The newly revealed “Oyakata Kizuchi” is a new monster appearing in Dragon Quest Monsters 4. The official Dragon Quest account on X announced the plush toy display alongside artwork, posting, “Plush toys of Oyakata Kizuchi will also be on display at the Square Enix booth at TGS2026 — come see them in person!”
Source: oricon.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Not that I'm actually playing this though.
That rice-ball slime looks like it's angling for a convenience-store tie-in.
It's in the first image.
They've got a big white monster carrying it on its shoulder.
Can't they just make Debora the main character?
Who's the boy in the background?
Then it's worthless.
They always manage to just barely miss the mark on Toriyama's design.
It really doesn't feel like Toriyama.
I mean, good or bad, that Toriyama look is exactly what I want.
For what it's worth, Debora's combat stats were overwhelmingly stronger than the other two.
Honestly, I had her as one of my main fighters.
She's fast and can equip the Demon Hammer, so she was irreplaceable, especially for metal-slime hunting.
Just having Debora on your team massively cuts down the time it takes to grind everyone to Lv99.
One or two would be fine, but there's a ridiculous number of them in this game.
Just put it on mobile, please.
Well, 1-2-3 got a mobile release too, so there's a chance, right?
They're clearly designing this with a mobile port in mind from the start.
Stop forcing the protagonist to be a kid.
Papas and Ladman would've been good [as adult leads].
It's tradition for Monsters games to have a kid protagonist.
Though 3 was an exception.
I like it, Bianca's little sister.
Honestly, let's have like a hundred of them show up.
The Hero of Zenithia was getting cozy with Manya, Mineah, and Alena after beating Death Pisaro, so a few hundred years later there'd probably be tons of descendants.
She's less popular than Flora anyway, so she's not needed.
Who's this even for?
Actually look at the artwork, she's right there.
A Leviathan Slime is inevitable now.
Yeah, that's right.
Pisaro's morals and values are never made clear — is he siding with the monsters or the humans? — and Rosalie's character is even more of a mess on top of that, so it's like, whose perspective am I even supposed to view this story from?
I think there was one in Legend of Momotaro too.
Background and Points of Debate
Akira Toriyama passed away in 2024, and since then the Dragon Quest series’ monster designs have been handled by other artists working to carry on the style he left behind. The recurring “it doesn’t feel like Toriyama” comments in the thread appear to reflect this change of artist, though the thread itself never states this outright. Also discussed was Debora, who did not appear in the original Super Famicom version of Dragon Quest V and only became a recruitable party member starting with the later PS2-era remakes — part of why reactions to her differ by generation. Overall, while opinions on the new monster’s design were split, there was also a fair amount of purely enthusiastic reaction, including posts speculating about a tie-in collaboration for the rice-ball slime. Concrete event details from the official announcement, such as the plush toy display at TGS2026, also helped fuel the discussion.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “New Game Dragon Quest Monsters 4: Bianca and Flora in the Withered Land Sparks Online Buzz Over New Monster Reveal, “The Design Is Excellent”“.
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